The Sense-Making Of Wechat’s Emoticons Of College Students

Emoticons become a common tool for college students in network communication.Young students use emoticons to change meaning and give new meanings.In this paper,a semi structured interview is conducted on 11 college students.In the process of interview,a dialogue text containing table symbols is collected and the emoticons are analyzed.On the basis of the situation of the use,the use strategy and the use effect,the characteristics of the emoticons are explored from four aspects: the subject,the content,the expression strategy and the way of reading.The author finds its rules: First,the author thinks that the common meaning space is the prerequisite for college students to communicate with emoticons in WeChat interpersonal communication.In university campus,because of the uncertainty of the common sense space,the large group will form a small group of individualized groups of interests,interests and other factors in the large group.Second,The amusement and constructivism of the love symbols constitute the distinctive style of the youth subculture,but the youth subculture is not resistant to the mainstream culture.It is formed on the basis of the individualized identity of the mainstream social norms and social culture.The use of emoticons can see the university students’ treatment of the network.Culture presents the unity of resistance and identity.The use of emoticons in WeChat is the process of Sense-Making.Therefore,ideological and political educators should first understand the network social environment of young people,face the function of the decompression valve of the network emoticons,and second,guide the mainstream values to the deep interpretation of the emoticons;third,if the youth can understand it,the education of the dominant values should pass through "soft".Finally,through various forms of collective activities to increase interpersonal communication in reality,and realize the return from network to real interpersonal relationships.